Framework 13 AMD AI 300 Series Review

This is the best laptop of Frame 13 that the company has ever produced. Mighty New Amd Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Mainboard is obviously the main thing that has improved the overall impressions, performance and service life of the Wee Upgradowne Teweneded, but I am also rather in a novel, cloudy monitor frame in advance of the keyboard and gameboy.

I have long loved the ethos behind the frame 13. This is the ship in the form of a laptop. In this way, we often refer to our desktop computers, in which we tear and replace the guts, however we want, but it was rarely a function of notebooks. And where it was in the past, it wasn’t so long.

However, the frames have been proven, releasing novel main boards on many different PCB Intel and AMD (and even RISC), which you can quickly and easily fall into the same 13-inch chassis that you could buy four years ago. And any other part of these unusual laptops can also be updated, and at that time we had novel input modules, higher resolution panels, and now a novel keyboard and trackpad module.

And everything is compatible with the first Framework 13. This is an idea that really records my imagination and means that despite the higher costs of a frame laptop, the idea that it can grow with me over time and I will not have to spend so much to get a improved device for a few years, makes the machines extremely desirable. If you can afford it.

But everything is not entirely Dews in my laptop frame. I spent a lot of time now using these machines, often as my daily work notebook and a travel companion, and and at that time there are things that I would like the company to get to sorting.

It is certainly not equipment – although I would like a less spectral screen – it’s software. Or rather its total lack. Sure, we often castrate laptop manufacturers for their bluatware and countless applications for controlling fans, lighting and energy profiles as well as anything else that the company wants to impose us. But the elementary Framework application, which gives us control over the curves of fans and power, there would be icing on the infinite repair of the dough.

Noise was a problem with Framework 13 in the past, and although it was noticed that Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 The board will still make fans blow even on Windows update. I would like to be able to adapt these fans curves to make them slightly easier for the ear, especially when I apply a laptop in kind company. Read: I do not want my partner to start because I play a football manager, and below the deck dominates the projector screen.

It would also be nippy to connect it with a more detailed level of control over APU, as possible as possible, with games for games using exactly the same processor silicone. In this way, we will get a better battery life and noise levels on these devices, so we know that it is possible with low software work.

Despite this, the battery life for AI 9 HX 370 games is quite damn good, even when Radeon 890M IGPU is crushed, and also provides an impressive number of frames per second. As for the game, this is the most powerful and laptop Framework, which I saw outside the unfortunately inhibited Framework 16. Given the current strategy of AMD mobile graphics, the probability of seeing GPU update for this 16-inch game laptop is now quite low.

Stay 1080p and, with a little FSR icing and maybe thrown here and there, you will see Star performances from this 13-inch. The only actual disappointment of this front is the screen itself. Now I am glad that Framework has started sending this higher resolution display, 120 Hz for its machines, but one of the biggest disadvantages for the original screen 2256 x 1504 was his reaction time, which was not significantly improved with an updated panel 2880 x 1920.

This means that you get a level of ghosts that does not seem great when you play on the device. Although, of course, it states that this is not a game laptop, it is much more talented than the previous boards allowed.

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But there are also novel updates next to the novel AMD board. And the most obvious from a visual point of view are the mouths and IO modules. I have gray and purple options for this machine and of course I went to GameBoy Advance Purple and I really cope with the frame.

The second addition is more subtle, and this is a novel set of input cover. For the uninitiated, it is a cover that includes both the keyboard and trackpad. This second generation cover is to have better key stability and more coherent lighting. And although the white RGB LEDs still look good – and the font is slightly different – it is a pleasure to write, although I mistakenly sent the German board Qwertz. Fortunately, muscle memory really helps …

However, it is worth riding a bike to the cost angle, because frame laptops are not low-cost. There is no Dells and Lenovos production force in the world and, unfortunately, does something special, which means that there is a price bonus.

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This DIY compilation that I tested is equipped with Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, 64 GB DDR5-5600 and SSD 1 TB WD SN850X. And this makes it an steep purchase USD 2,094 (2 108 £). I am in the stage of repair and update, and this will make it a more affordable laptop years later, but when something like Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge, with the Snapdragon X Elite and OLED screen is just over the great one, or Half the priceThis is only a potential future e-internship that would really give me a detention.

I have been using Qualcomm for almost a year as my real work laptop. This has not yet disappointed me and he will play a football manager almost quietly, with the same battery life.

Of course you can become cheaper. There is Ryzen AI 7 350 with eight cus and some level of Perf games, and you can pair it with 16 GB DDR5 and a cheaper 1 TB drive to bring it to easier $ 1,500 to master. It would be a good machine, but at this point I would stick to the older motherboard AMD Ryzen 7 7840u with better graphics and an even lower price of the sticker. Beauty Frame frame Are older boards discounted when they are still in the warehouse.

There is also the fact that you can simply buy the main board yourself, if you are already in the frame ecosystem or bring an SSD from a different compilation or you want to obtain Sodimms yourself. All ways to make everything cheaper to yourself in the same way as when building a DIY desktop computer.

But these prices are still complicated, because if you start with a frame, there is a price bonus. It’s morality and a bank account. Planet vs. What you can do today. I love Framework 13, and in the case of APU HX 370 it is a fantastic versatile device-the best, which has ever been-but it is also very steep, which means that you really pay for a possible future update. However, if you can afford it, there should be an absolutely ethos to stop.